Feast of Saint Monica

From the Office of Readings:

This was the substance of our talk, though not the exact words. Yet you know, O Lord, how on that very day, amid this talk of ours that seemed to make the world with all its charms grow cheap, she said, “For my part, my son, I no longer find pleasure in anything that this life holds. What I am doing here still, or why I am still here, I do not know, for worldly hope has withered away for me. One thing only there was for which I desired to linger in this life: to see you a Catholic Christian before I died. And my God has granted this to me more lavishly than I could have hoped, letting me see even you spurning earthly happiness to be his servant. What am I still doing here?”

Benedict Speaks on Brother Roger Again

From Zenit:

Benedict XVI revealed details of his relationship with the 90-year-old religious, a "great pioneer of unity," who was stabbed to death Aug. 16 by an apparently unstable 36-year-old Romanian woman.

"I had known him personally for a long time and had a cordial friendship with him," said the Pope.

"He often came to visit me and, as I already said in Rome on the day of his murder, I received a letter from him that moved my heart, because in it he underlined his adherence to my way and told me that he wanted to come and see me," said the Holy Father.

"He is now visiting us and speaking to us from on high," said Benedict XVI. "I think that we must listen to him, we must listen from within to his spiritually lived ecumenism and allow ourselves to be led by his witness toward an interiorized and spiritualized ecumenism."

Katrina Moves Into the Gulf of Mexico

Things are heating up in the Atlantic too...

Pope Benedict XVI to Visit Poland

I'll bet a beatification will take place during that visit.

Guardian Unlimited World Latest Pope Benedict XVI to Visit Poland

Hints that there is talk of Beatifying John Paul as a Martyr:

Mario Agnes, editor-in-chief of the official Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano, told an annual pro-catholic political meeting that the stones in St Peter's Square where John Paul's blood was shed should be preserved because it was the blood of "an authentic martyred Pope.

Archdiocese of Louisville to Ordain Married Man

Their first, but of course many dioceses already have several.



From Future Catholic priest is married

Stuck in 1971

Keynote at the Leadership Conference of Catholic Women focuses on the luminous moment of 1971...thirty-four years ago!



How about being for today!

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near Fort Lauderdale

From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Katrina, whose winds rose to 75 mph and was named a hurricane Thursday afternoon, began to make landfall between Pompano Beach and south to Aventura.

At 5 p.m. the center of Hurricane Katrina was located about 15 miles east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale. Katrina is moving toward the west near 6 mph. At that rate and on its current course, the storm would strike somewhere near Fort Lauderdale or Pompano Beach or Deerfield Beach around 8 p.m.